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http://www.rawilson.com/sitnow.html

"The Jumping Jesus Phenomenon"

Our psychic universe is expanding even more rapidly than the physical universe. Let us define the measurement of known scientific facts in the year 1 A.D. as "one jesus," using the name of the celebrated philosopher born that year.

Before going any further, let us ask how long it took to arrive at one jesus. One way of estimating is to take the estimated age of homo sapiens, in which case it took 40,000 to 100,000 years.

How long did it take to double this accumulation of knowledge, to achieve two jesuses? It required 1500 years - until 1500 A.D. How long did it take to double again and obtain four jesuses? It required 250 years, and we had four jesuses in our larder by 1750.

The next doubling took 150 years, and by 1900 A.D. humanity had eight jesuses in our information account. The next doubling took 50 years, and by 1950 we had 16 jesuses. The next, ten years, and by 1960 we had 32 jesuses. The next doubling took seven years, and by 1967 we had 64 jesuses. And the next doubling took 6 years; by 1973 we have 128 jesuses.

There is no reason to imagine that the acceleration has stopped. Thus, we almost certainly reached 256 j around 1978-79 and 512 j in 1982.

In short, we are living in a mental transformation space; that is, an omnidimensional halo expanding toward infinity in all directions. And the electronic center of this halo of mentation is possibly everywhere. It is all available to you right where you are sitting now. Just plug in a terminal. The machine doesn't care who or what you are.

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>>17470181
[True] Ecological science, like all science, is relativistic, evolutionary, and progressive; that is, it regards all generalizations as hypothetical and is always ready to revise them. It seeks truth, but never claims to have obtained all truth.

Pop ecology, or ecological mysticism, is the reverse in all respects. It is absolutist, dogmatic, and fanatical. It does not usually refer its arguments back to ecological science (except vaguely and often inaccurately); it refers them to emotions, moral judgements, and the casual baggage of ill-assorted ideas that make up pop culture generally. Ecological mysticism, in short, is only rhetorically connected with the science of ecology, or any science; it is basically a crusade, a quasi-religion, an ideology

.....It is my suspicion that the usefulness of the ideology to the ruling elite is no accident....The tax-exempt foundations which largely finance Pop Ecology are funded by the so-called Yankee Establishment -- the Eastern banking-industrial interests of whom the Rockefellers are the symbols. If this Yankee financing is not "coincidental" and "accidental" (based on purely disinterested charity)--if the ecological-mystical movement is serving Yankee Banker interests--a great deal of current debate is based on deliberately created mutual misunderstanding

...Consider the following widely-published and widely believed propositions: "There isn't enough to go around." "The Revolution of Rising Expectations, since the 18th Century, was based on fallacy." "Reason and Science are to be distrusted; they are the great enemies." "We are running out of energy." "Science destroys all it touches." "Man is vile and corrupts Nature." "We must settle for Lowered Expectations."

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>>17470680
Whether mouthed by the Club of Rome or Friends of the Earth, this ideology has one major social effect: people who are living in misery and deprivation, who might otherwise organize to seek better lives, are persuaded to accept continued deprivation, for themselves and their children.

That such resignation to poverty, squalor, disease, misery, starvation, etc. is useful to ruling elites has frequently been noted by Marxists a propos pre-ecological mysticism; and, indeed, people can only repeat the current neo-puritan line by assuming that the benefit to the Yankee oligarchy is totally accidental and not the chief purpose of the promulgation of this ideology.

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>>17470181
>Our psychic universe is expanding even more rapidly than the physical universe

>> No.17471340

>>17470181
Nigga wth are you talking about. There’s only 1 Jesus lol

>> No.17471367

>>17470181
Actual genius idea, however retarded it may seem.

>> No.17471419

>>17471340
I'm kinda lost aswell, after the second post it just gets confusing

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>>17471340
>Nigga wth are you talking about. There’s only 1 Jesus lol
it's a thought exercise where you quantify the collective human knowledge in terms of units of "Jesus"

https://youtu.be/yY5r_zox-a8

"In reading Wilson's numerous takes on his Jumping J Phenom we see the idea linked to vast historical migrations of world centers of wealth. When there's lots of wealth there's lots of ideas/data/new techniques/mathematical progress/information/knowledge. Because this meta-conceptualization is a map made by a human (RAW) from reading ideas about this topic from others, it's an intensely social project. Further, because Wilson is not a Platonist, human nervous systems make these models of models of models. Hence, the migration of wealth over the globe over the longue duree was called a "neurogeography" of wealth migration. Indeed: to remind us that (presumably) ALL of our studies are human and not given by the gods, even mathematics might be thought of as "neuromathematics."All of our maps and models of "reality" must first filter through the nervous systems of Beings like ourselves who live on this planet, in a gravity well, orbiting a Type G main-sequence star. There might be other intelligent Beings elsewhere with different systems for mapping "reality." Hilariously, RAW pointed out that, in reminding ourselves of this, we must think of the discipline of neuroscience as neuro-neuroscience"

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>>17471419
>I'm kinda lost aswell, after the second post it just gets confusing

"Assume the measure of all known scientific facts at the beginning of year A.D. 1 as One
Jesus, named for the celebrated philosopher born in that year. That first year A.D. was One,
by the way, not Zero – much the same as the first inning of a ball game is Inning 1, not Inning
0, from beginning to end.
That knowledge brought Homo sapiens from about 100,000 years ago and the discovery
of fire, let’s say, through the early years at the University of Athens (Socrates, Pythagoras,
Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, etc.). Prior to that, of course, it actually took all the billions of
years that led us to such a pivotal moment in time.
How long did it take us to double this accumulation of knowledge, to achieve the
equivalent information of Two Jesuses? …Only 1,500 years or so with the likes of Cicero,
Seneca, daVinci, Fibonacci, Gutenberg and their learned colleagues.
And doubling again? Only 250 years, taking us up to year 1750 and Four Jesuses. Eight
Jesuses took less than 125 additional years, through about 1875. By 1940 we were at 16 J,
and 1970 at 32 J. These were the times of Pascal, Leibniz, Boolean, Babbage, Bell, Edison,
Ford, Marconi and Einstein to name but a few.
By 1985 the count was up to 64 J, 1992 at 128 J. 1995 brought us to 256 J, 1998 over 512
J. We now have developers of our modern computer in the mix, along with the research labs
of Bell, IBM, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard and the like. And there’s Bill Gates and Stephen Jobs,
helping to market the computers that thousands of scientists around the world are busily
developing.
We are now at several thousand Jesuses and the Jesuses are jumping quickly. In short, we
are living in a mental transformation space; that is, an omni-dimensional halo expanding
toward infinity in all directions. The innovators are now people like you and me, creating new
ideas from anywhere there’s a plug-in."

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>>17471776
"The electronic center of this halo of mentation is no longer confined; it is everywhere. It is
available to you right where you are seated at this moment. Just plug in a terminal or turn on
your PDA, desktop or laptop and there you are. The machine doesn't care who, what or where
you are. Thanks to Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn for their PCP/IP, the protocol that enables the
global sharing of information, and Tim Berners-Lee who brought us the World Wide Web.
What’s next? Pencils that store all the information they write; textbooks being replaced by
laptops and PDAs; robots teaching our children? We can only imagine what the future holds
for us but rest assured it will be an exciting time to behold.
The Jumping Jesus Phenomenon is not a theory anymore; it is a fact: Technology is
doubling our vast knowledge today with unprecedented rapidity, and it is available to you and
me literally anywhere there’s a plug-in or a Wi-Fi connection! If you are an accomplished
educator, as I suspect you are, you won’t want to miss out on this incredible era in which you
and I have been fortunate enough to have been born."

http://www.bpauley.com/The_World_of_Bob_Pauley/Wow,_Now!_files/The%20Jumping%20Jesus%20Phenomenon.pdf

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"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
-T.S. Eliot, "The Rock"

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>>17472165
Eric Schmidt said that from the dawn of civilization until 2003, humans had produced five exabytes of data. He said that we now produce that every two days, and it's accelerating. I don't know his source(s). I have no grasp of an "exobyte." I'm not really even sure how this was measured or what it could mean, but Schmidt seemed excited by this. I gleaned it from This Will Make You Smarter, ed. by John Brockman, p.305 Of course, cultural evolution, being Lamarckian, occured pre-Jesus. Who knows when time-binding began? (My guess was on a Tuesday, probably rainy, may as well stay in the cave all day and...write something?) Vico says, "The Greek philosophers accelerated the natural course of their nation's development." (paragraph #158, New Science)

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>>17472165
Also: presumably there's a much more unwieldy problem lurking here: the difference between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. In "The Neurogeography of Conspiracy" in Right Where You Are Sitting Now RAW includes a footnote on one of these elements:

No statement is made or intended about wisdom, which is private, not public, and somewhat more mysterious. (p.90)

>> No.17472988

might aswell write a book. if you've got weird wisdom it's lost here